"Religion, Culture and Politics: The Explosive Mix" presented by Dr. Jill Carroll, Rice University.  Sept. 11, 10-12noon.  UH Division of CE and Extension.  102 C.N. Hilton Hotel and College (UH)  SEITAR presentation.  $5 for students.   

“Global Media & the Power of Images by Ralph Begleiter, University of Delaware.  Sept. 30, 4-5:30pm.  HCCS West Loop Auditorium. 

 

2004 Common Book:  West of Kabul, East of New York.  by Tamim Ansary

Tuesday, October 19  HCCS West Loop Campus Auditorium

11:30-1:30.  

 

Lecture at Northwest College/ Town & Country Eagle Room

October 28, 2004,  12:30 - 2 p.m.

Christine Kovic, Ph.D., Anthropologist at UHCL will speak and show slides about her research among women in Chiapas. She has a new book

Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope

by Christine Eber , Christine Kovic

 She will refer to the book in some readings - poetry, etc.

As some of our students speak about transferring to UHCL, Christine can take questions about that also. 

 

Many Women Many Voices - Research on Expatriate Accompanying Spouses by Brenda Hagan, Director of Global Workforce Development for Prudential Intercultural.  Nov. 13, 10-12, UH Division of CE and Extension.  102 C.N. Hilton Hotel and College (UH)  SEITAR presentation.  $5 for students.    _____________________________________________________________

Houston Museum of Natural Sciences

Tibetan Beliefs & Monastic Traditions (code/TMB)

October 12, 6:30 p.m.

Lama Geshe Nyima Dakpa, Menri Monastery, India

$12 members, $15 non-members;  3 pts. for attendance plus a one page description of what you got out of the presentation.

 

Politics of Modern Tibet: The Legacy of the Past and Challenges of the Future (code/PMT)

October 19, 7 p.m.

Panel from Rice University

$12 members, $15 non-members; 3 pts. for attendance plus a one page description of what you got out of the presentation.  

 

Buddhism, Tibet & World Culture (code/EVTCODE)

November 9, 7 p.m.

Dr. Anne C. Klein, Rice University & Dawn Mountain Tibetan Temple and Community Center$12 members, $15 non-member; ______________________________________________________________________

THE CENTER FOR THE HEALING OF RACISM

 

Dialogue: Racism

 

 

WESTBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

5200 WILLOWBEND @ WEST BELLFORT

 

  Starting Monday September 20 ending Monday November 15, 2004

7:00pm to 9:00 pm

 

 

TOPICS AND VIDEOS USED OVER THE 9 WEEKS:

 

. Defining various types of racism:  The film, ?The Way Home? is a fountain of healing truths that dares to speak the unspeakable about the politics of oppression and race in the United States. 

.  How racism is perpetuated:  Childhood experiences, misinformation and segregation.

.  Unaware racism and White Privilege: Confronting this country's history of White privilege.

.  Stereotypes, and how they affect us:  The film, ?Ethnic Notions?, shows the deep-rooted stereotypes and dehumanizing caricatures that have fueled anti-Black prejudice.

.  Cultural racism: The film, ?Healing the Hurts? depicts the effects of residential schools on Native-Americans

.  Internalized racism: When the anger, hurt and frustration turn inward.  The film, ? The Way Home ? goes beyond a basic awareness of racism to explore the subtle, rarely acknowledged roots of self-hatred and lack of understanding among even the most progressive people.

 .  Institutionalized racism:  The systems that affect us daily: media, justice system, educational system, health care system, and economic system. The film,? Race-the Power of an Illusion? answers the question does the color of your skin play a role in America?

.  Race is a human invention:  The video,  ?Race-The Power of an Illusion? asks the questions:  ?What if we suddenly discovered that our most basic assumption about race - for instance, that the world's people can be divided biologically along racial lines - was false? And if race is a biological "myth," where did the idea come from? How do our institutions give race social meaning and power??

.  My next steps, finding allys:  ?An Unlikely Friendship?, is a film about a surprising friendship, which emerged between an embittered Ku Klux Klan leader and an outspoken black woman activist. Told in their own words, this compelling story is as sincere and down-home as the protagonists.

 

**The sessions are free and open to the public; registration is required by calling the Center?s office at 

713-520-8226 and leaving the name(s) and phone number of person or persons attending.    

 *The Center is not affiliated with host church

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 THE CENTER FOR THE HEALING OF RACISM

In partnership with The Dominican Sisters

Presents:

Race - The Power of an Illusion Video

  Tuesday Evenings, September 21, 28, and October 5

6501 Almeda between Holcombe & S. MacGregor

Dominican Sisters Meeting Room

7pm to 9pm

  San Francisco, CA - What if we suddenly discovered that our most basic assumption about race - for instance, that the world's people can be divided biologically along racial lines - was false? And if race is a biological "myth," where did the idea come from? How do our institutions give race social meaning and power?

 Race - The Power of an Illusion,  Groundbreaking Three-Part Series Challenges and Reveals How the Myth Took Hold and Retains It?s Power.

 

Episode 1: "The Difference Between Us;   September 21

To all intents and purposes Roxanna was as white as anybody, but the 1/16 of her that was black outvoted the other 15 parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave and saleable as such. Her child was 31 parts white and he too was a slave, and by a fiction of law and custom, a Negro.

 

Episode 2: "The Story We Tell", September 28

 Is it true that race has always been with us, right? Wrong. Ancient peoples stigmatized "others" on the grounds of language, custom, class, and especially religion, but they did not sort people into races.

"The Story We Tell" traces the origins of the racial idea to the European conquest of the Americas and to the American slave system, the first ever where all the slaves shared a physical trait: dark skin.

 

Episode 3: "The House We Live In", October 5

"Virginia law defined a Black person as a person with 1/16th African ancestry. Florida defined a black person as a person with 1/8th African ancestry. Alabama said, 'You are Black if you got any African ancestry at all.' But you know what this means? You can walk across a state line and literally, legally change race. Now what does race mean under those circumstances? You give me the power, I can make you any race I want you to be, because it is a social, political construction."

  The series is free and open to the public; registration is required by calling the Center's office @ 713-520-8226 and leaving your name and contact information.  .

 

                               The Center is not affiliated with the host